“…Since the first demonstrations of 3PM for in vivo brain imaging (Horton et al, 2013; Ouzounov et al, 2017), a number of research groups have successfully adopted and developed the technology (Chen et al, 2018; Escobet-Montalbán et al, 2018; Odríguez, 2018; Perillo et al, 2017; Rowlands et al, 2017; Takasaki et al, 2019b; Weisenburger et al, 2019; Yildirim et al, 2019), propelled by the commercially available lasers and microscopes. To facilitate 3PM applications, here we provide a quantitative characterization of three-photon deep-brain calcium imaging, with a side-by-side comparison to 2PM with 920 nm excitation.…”